{"id":428679,"date":"2021-08-02T10:51:02","date_gmt":"2021-08-02T05:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=428679"},"modified":"2021-08-02T12:49:44","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T07:19:44","slug":"highway-land-scam-in-tamil-nadu-officer-flagged-illegality-in-2007-letter-was-ignored","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/highway-land-scam-in-tamil-nadu-officer-flagged-illegality-in-2007-letter-was-ignored\/","title":{"rendered":"Highway land scam in Tamil Nadu : Officer flagged illegality in 2007, letter was ignored"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI: State authorities investigating the highway land scam spanning two decades at Sriperumbudur seem to have opened a can of worms. A recent development shows that the an officer had flagged malpractices relating to the scam in 2007 and requested a CB-CID probe, but the matter was never taken up. <\/p>\n<p>The scam concerns revenue department officials issuing illegal pattas for government land worth several hundred crores in 46 villages in Chennai, Kancheepuram, Tiruvallur, Pudukkottai and Tiruvannamalai. <\/p>\n<p>Government documents from twenty years ago, which have surfaced during the probe, show that Assistant Settlement Officers (ASO) from Tiruvannamalai collected fictitious petitions, prepared office copies and simultaneously granted the illegal pattas twenty years back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI: State authorities investigating the highway land scam spanning two decades at Sriperumbudur seem to have opened a can of worms. A recent development shows that the an officer had flagged malpractices relating to the scam in 2007 and requested a CB-CID probe, but the matter was never taken up. The scam concerns revenue department officials issuing illegal pattas for government land worth several hundred crores in 46 villages in Chennai, Kancheepuram, Tiruvallur, Pudukkottai and Tiruvannamalai. Government documents from twenty years ago, which have surfaced during the probe, show that Assistant Settlement Officers (ASO) from Tiruvannamalai collected fictitious petitions, prepared [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,221,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-428679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-roads-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}